Philosophy - the Examined Life

Maybe you took a Philosophy 101 class in high school or college? Maybe you just want to examine the inner life? Dive in. The Library is an excellent place to explore ancient and modern great thinkers on questions that will take deeper.

This new translation of The Second Sex, by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier... makes available all the material of the original 1949 French ...Show more
This new translation of The Second Sex, by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier... makes available all the material of the original 1949 French edition...The Second Sex can now be appreciated by English readers as the complex exploration of women and men that it undoubtedly is...One of the many interesting aspects of Beauvoir's work, which Rowbotham recognises, is the importance of the nature of the discipline - philosophy - from which she came. It led her, as Rowbotham points out, to the strategy of ‘entering male culture’ in order to undermine it. - Mary Evans, The Times Higher Education 3/18/2010
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This new translation of The Second Sex, by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier... makes available all the material of the original 1949 French ...Show more
This new translation of The Second Sex, by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier... makes available all the material of the original 1949 French edition...The Second Sex can now be appreciated by English readers as the complex exploration of women and men that it undoubtedly is...One of the many interesting aspects of Beauvoir's work, which Rowbotham recognises, is the importance of the nature of the discipline - philosophy - from which she came. It led her, as Rowbotham points out, to the strategy of ‘entering male culture’ in order to undermine it. - Mary Evans, The Times Higher Education 3/18/2010
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As Goldstein puts it: ‘If philosophy makes progress, then why doesn’t Plato at long last just go away?’... She claims progress in philosophy is real but ‘...Show more
As Goldstein puts it: ‘If philosophy makes progress, then why doesn’t Plato at long last just go away?’... She claims progress in philosophy is real but ‘invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. . . . We don’t see it, because we see with it.’ Yet if that were so, shouldn’t Plato now be old hat to us? He would only be telling us things that, thanks partly to him, we have come to already know. A more apt approach to the enigma of philosophical progress may be to question the question. ...Wouldn’t it in fact be rather disappointing to stop asking fundamental questions? If philosophy is not something we’d like to see all sorted out and put away, there will always be a place for Plato, because he was so remarkably good at it. – Anthony Gottlieb, 4/18/14, New York Times
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As Goldstein puts it: ‘If philosophy makes progress, then why doesn’t Plato at long last just go away?’... She claims progress in philosophy is real but ‘...Show more
As Goldstein puts it: ‘If philosophy makes progress, then why doesn’t Plato at long last just go away?’... She claims progress in philosophy is real but ‘invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. . . . We don’t see it, because we see with it.’ Yet if that were so, shouldn’t Plato now be old hat to us? He would only be telling us things that, thanks partly to him, we have come to already know. A more apt approach to the enigma of philosophical progress may be to question the question. ...Wouldn’t it in fact be rather disappointing to stop asking fundamental questions? If philosophy is not something we’d like to see all sorted out and put away, there will always be a place for Plato, because he was so remarkably good at it. – Anthony Gottlieb, 4/18/14, New York Times
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Aristotle conceives of ethical theory as a field distinct from the theoretical sciences. Its methodology must match its subject matter—good action—and mus...Show more
Aristotle conceives of ethical theory as a field distinct from the theoretical sciences. Its methodology must match its subject matter—good action—and must respect the fact that in this field many generalizations hold only for the most part. We study ethics in order to improve our lives, and therefore its principal concern is the nature of human well-being. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/
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Aristotle conceives of ethical theory as a field distinct from the theoretical sciences. Its methodology must match its subject matter—good action—and mus...Show more
Aristotle conceives of ethical theory as a field distinct from the theoretical sciences. Its methodology must match its subject matter—good action—and must respect the fact that in this field many generalizations hold only for the most part. We study ethics in order to improve our lives, and therefore its principal concern is the nature of human well-being. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/
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To [director Astra] Taylor's credit it's as inviting and accessible as a smart conversation with fascinating friends. Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times 4/23/2009
To [director Astra] Taylor's credit it's as inviting and accessible as a smart conversation with fascinating friends. Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times 4/23/2009
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To [director Astra] Taylor's credit it's as inviting and accessible as a smart conversation with fascinating friends. Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times 4/23/2009
To [director Astra] Taylor's credit it's as inviting and accessible as a smart conversation with fascinating friends. Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times 4/23/2009
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Excerpts from more diverse thinkers (than Western Philosophy texts) in addressing difficult questions about the human condition. Used as a Community College text book for philosophy classes. A more current edition is available.
Excerpts from more diverse thinkers (than Western Philosophy texts) in addressing difficult questions about the human condition. Used as a Community College text book for philosophy classes. A more current edition is available.
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Excerpts from more diverse thinkers (than Western Philosophy texts) in addressing difficult questions about the human condition. Used as a Community College text book for philosophy classes. A more current edition is available.
Excerpts from more diverse thinkers (than Western Philosophy texts) in addressing difficult questions about the human condition. Used as a Community College text book for philosophy classes. A more current edition is available.
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As an intellectual, a philosopher and an educator, W. E.B. Du Bois offers an assessment of the progress of the race, the obstacles to that progress, and t...Show more
As an intellectual, a philosopher and an educator, W. E.B. Du Bois offers an assessment of the progress of the race, the obstacles to that progress, and the possibilities for future progress as the nation entered the twentieth century. - http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/duboissouls/summary.html
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As an intellectual, a philosopher and an educator, W. E.B. Du Bois offers an assessment of the progress of the race, the obstacles to that progress, and t...Show more
As an intellectual, a philosopher and an educator, W. E.B. Du Bois offers an assessment of the progress of the race, the obstacles to that progress, and the possibilities for future progress as the nation entered the twentieth century. - http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/duboissouls/summary.html
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This is a play for an Athens that has learned to read and thereby lost its innocence regarding myth and the enchantment of language...
Dr. Peter Agocs
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/classical-play/archive/2009Frogs-studyinfo
This is a play for an Athens that has learned to read and thereby lost its innocence regarding myth and the enchantment of language...
Dr. Peter Agocs
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/classical-play/archive/2009Frogs-studyinfo
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This is a play for an Athens that has learned to read and thereby lost its innocence regarding myth and the enchantment of language...
Dr. Peter Agocs
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/classical-play/archive/2009Frogs-studyinfo
This is a play for an Athens that has learned to read and thereby lost its innocence regarding myth and the enchantment of language...
Dr. Peter Agocs
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/classical-play/archive/2009Frogs-studyinfo
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Not ready for The Republic yet? This series includes super short intros to challenging topics and philosophers like: logic, Kierkegaard, sociolinguistics, Nietzsche and the avant-garde.
Not ready for The Republic yet? This series includes super short intros to challenging topics and philosophers like: logic, Kierkegaard, sociolinguistics, Nietzsche and the avant-garde.
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No Exit bears careful consideration. Sartre's catchphrases are so attractive that they area easily misinterpreted, and should be taken in the context of his larger work.
No Exit bears careful consideration. Sartre's catchphrases are so attractive that they area easily misinterpreted, and should be taken in the context of his larger work.
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No Exit bears careful consideration. Sartre's catchphrases are so attractive that they area easily misinterpreted, and should be taken in the context of his larger work.
No Exit bears careful consideration. Sartre's catchphrases are so attractive that they area easily misinterpreted, and should be taken in the context of his larger work.
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Winner of the Booker prize and Dame of the British Empire for literary achievements, Murdoch was also philosopher.
Winner of the Booker prize and Dame of the British Empire for literary achievements, Murdoch was also philosopher.
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Winner of the Booker prize and Dame of the British Empire for literary achievements, Murdoch was also philosopher.
Winner of the Booker prize and Dame of the British Empire for literary achievements, Murdoch was also philosopher.
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Tune in to this live weekly radio show, or download podcasts from the archive. Hosts Ken Taylor (Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University) and John ...Show more
Tune in to this live weekly radio show, or download podcasts from the archive. Hosts Ken Taylor (Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University) and John Perry (Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Riverside), proponents of the examined life, and Stanford Philosophy host the show on wide-ranging popular topics including science, morality, and the human condition.
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SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates a...Show more
SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research.
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Although berries and beans may be separated by a subtle sound within a language, the larger space between like words in different languages is just as haz...Show more
Although berries and beans may be separated by a subtle sound within a language, the larger space between like words in different languages is just as hazardous. Two words that seem to indicate the same state may mean the opposite. In English, the spiritual guy is pious, while the one called spirituel in French is witty; a liberal in France is on the right, in America to the left. And what of cultural inflections that seem to separate meanings otherwise identical? When we have savoir-faire in French, don’t we actually have something different from “know-how” in English, even though the two compounds combine pretty much the same elements? - Adam Gopnik, Annals of Language, “Word Magic,” The New Yorker, May 26, 2014, p. 36
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Don't let the pretty cover fool you, challenging concepts and difficult reading. If you want to see if you are prepared for a college philosophy seminar, try this.
Don't let the pretty cover fool you, challenging concepts and difficult reading. If you want to see if you are prepared for a college philosophy seminar, try this.
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Don't let the pretty cover fool you, challenging concepts and difficult reading. If you want to see if you are prepared for a college philosophy seminar, try this.
Don't let the pretty cover fool you, challenging concepts and difficult reading. If you want to see if you are prepared for a college philosophy seminar, try this.
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